Romance fraud: warning over scam that turns victims into insurance cheats

Insurers say cases of scammers manipulating people into staging crashes and filing bogus claims are under-reported Romance fraud typically evokes images of people being tricked out of their life savings by partners they meet on dating sites, but some scammers use a different tactic: recruiting unsuspecting victims into fake insurance claims. The scam involves a fraudster convincing their partner, or a person they are dating, either to say they have witnessed a car accident, or to take out an ...

By Shane Hickey